IVI CLASSROOM

Pacific MindWorks is proud to offer the IVI JumpStart training class, an intensive course that begins with a detailed look at the intricacies of the IVI specifications and architecture. Take a look at the Detailed Course Timeline below.

Special features of IVI drivers - simulation, state caching, range checking

IVI drivers and I/O - VISA-based I/O, custom I/O

IVI driver style guidelines

IVI drivers and LabVIEW

Comparing IVI-COM and IVI-C

IVI drivers and .NET

IVI driver installers

IVI drivers and LXI

Day 2 - Building IVI Drivers w/ Nimbus - Part 1

Driver design basics

Configuring Visual Studio

Nimbus User Interface overview

Implementing repeated capabilities

Understanding I/O in drivers

Implementation basics for message-based devices

Creating an IVI-C driver wrapper on IVI-COM

Multi-model drivers

Versioning drivers

Day 3 - Building IVI Drivers w/ Nimbus - Part 2

Documenting drivers

Range checking, state caching, coercion

MATLAB wrapper development

Testing IVI drivers

Creating driver help files

Developing driver installers

Day 4 and 5 - Getting Up and Running with a Driver

Days 4 and 5 are devoted to jump-starting the customer’s internal driver development projects. The precise format for this portion of the course is intentionally
left open to allow for the greatest flexibility in adjusting to what is learned in the first part of the course. Typically, the last days of the course consist of some of the following tasks:

Selecting a real instrument to begin developing an actual driver

Examining instrument communication issues and strategies

Prototyping help file development

Understanding deployment issues

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